Moormead Area Parking Issues Note

Great turnout by Residents to have open discussion with local Councillors Annie Hambidge and Simon Lamb re; Parking Problems in the area.

One resident , unfortunately unable to attend, nevertheless submitted a great suggestion which received immediate acceptance;

A further survey to be carried out to define more accurately how much of the problem was residents own making (?) ..only a resident could suggest such a thing! ie. more than one car per household ; what % of the problem is caused by commuter 12 x5 hours parking and what is % local businesses ie. Drummond Place & Post Office are other contributing factors to this problem .

Councillor Hambidge will meet again with Hilary ( Chair of Residents Association ) on Monday after she has verified with Officers how this should be implemented in order that the Council will consider it valid, in that it follows their correct guidelines and procedure.

We will report back to you as soon as we have significant news/information .

Thank you all for supporting us in our efforts to make life a little easier .

Comments

THe parking in this area is extremely dangerous. Many children cross the railway footbridge and walk along to St Stephens School - it is necessary most mornings to walk out into the road to get past the cars who park out past the ends of the side roads and so tight to other cars that you cannoit walk between. MAny of the older children walk in gorups by themselves and the cars create an unnecessary danger. Strangely in the Beaconsfield/AMyand PArk Road area where I live, cars parking on the ends of roads have frequently been ticketed by the parking wardens - I wonder why this is only done on one side of the railway line!!??

Yvonne THomas on 2006-03-31 09:47:14 +0000

The Officer made the Council's attitude to Parking Controls in the Moormead area very clear. RUTC will ensure a NO vote by including the area North of the A316 which has completely different problems from the Moormead area. If they are persuaded to look at a smaller scale they will say "Yes, you can have parking control,but, we will have to instal yellow lines at every corner reducing capacity by about 100 spaces in yout area. You can choose"( To find this out is going to cost us all £75,000) Dare I say it, Cole park Road should not be a CPZ. Every house has a garage & a drive. It is effectively a private road maintained at public expense. A large number of commuters, police & sorting office staff now park on Moormead. Cole Park Road could cope far better. Let's share the misery.

Stephen Alexander on 2006-03-31 16:43:21 +0000

If there is a CPZ in the Moormead area, then commuter parking will switch over the A316. Orchard Road and St Peter's Road already have problems. It is essential, therefore, that those north of the A316 are consulted, albeit perhaps with a different question, such as if there is a CPZ there (Moormead) do you want one here.

The loss of spaces near corners is possibly the most difficult issue. The traffic engineers always try to insist on 5 to 10 metres. I tried to get them to agree to about three metres (slightly less than the white hatched areas) in this area as a compromise, for consultation purposes.

You could ask for the CPZ to be part of Cole Park Road CPZ rather than on its own or part of St Margarets. This would enable some overflow onto Cole Park Road to compensate for loss of spaces. Whether it would be enough I do not know.

However, as I said previously (in an earlier string on this subject) there also needs to be something innovative such as a car sharing scheme in the mixture if the evening problems are to be resolved.